Footing is Not Always about Stress: Formalizing Variable High Vowel Deletion in Québec French

Garcia, Guilherme D.; Goad, Heather; Guzzo, Natália Brambatti

doi:10.3765/amp.v4i0.3991

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“…We turn now to the footing hypothesis. If word-internal footing plays a role in HVD, in line with our previous results , Garcia, Goad & Guzzo 2017) and Verluyten's (1982) proposal, the following is predicted:…”

Section: Foot-dependent Positionsupporting

confidence: 87%

“…Previous experiment. As mentioned above, our previous experiment supports Verluyten's (1982) hypothesis that HVD in QF is conditioned by word-internal rhythmic structure , Garcia, Goad & Guzzo 2017. This section describes the methodology and results of this experiment.…”

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“…We recruited 12 native speakers of Québec French, all of whom were born and raised in the Montreal area. None of the participants was bilingual from childhood (although 5 In Garcia, Goad & Guzzo (2017), we also report that morphology (i.e., whether the target vowel is in a suffix) and phonotactic profile (i.e., whether the resulting consonant cluster mirrors a phonotactically well-formed complex onset) have an effect on HVD in QF.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…Even though Verluyten (1982) did not test this empirically, the results of a recent experiment on native speakers' judgements on HVD in QF support the proposal that the phenomenon is rhythmically conditioned: participants prefer HVD in even-numbered syllables from the right edge of the word , Garcia, Goad & Guzzo 2017. We refer to this as the footing hypothesis.…”

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“…5 If this were the case, then the role of footing in the phenomenon could be weakened. Since the experiment reported in and Garcia, Goad & Guzzo (2017) only included isolated words, it did not test for the possibility that another rhythmic constraint, namely phrase-level tonal profile, could play a role in HVD. More specifically, it could be that the phenomenon is conditioned by the location of the optionally-realized phrase-initial H tone.…”

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What motivates high vowel deletion in Québec French: Foot structure or tonal profile?

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Previous studies have argued that high vowel deletion (HVD) in Québec French is constrained by iterative iambic footing (Guzzo, Goad & Garcia 2016, Garcia, Goad & Guzzo 2017; see also Verluyten 1982), since it preferentially applies in even-numbered syllables from the right edge of the word. In this paper, we compare this hypothesis with an alternative hypothesis: HVD is constrained by the optionally-realized phrase-initial H tone (Jun & Fougeron 2000, Thibault & Ouellet 1996). We report on a judgement task in which two- and four-syllable nouns with HVD in the initial syllable are placed in phrases of different profiles (No determiner, Determiner + noun, Determiner + adjective + noun). If tonal profile plays a role in HVD, HVD in four-syllable nouns in phrases where the noun is in isolation or preceded by a determiner alone should be dispreferred, since the initial syllable of the noun is assigned the optional H tone in these contexts. Our results do not confirm this: HVD is favored in four-syllable nouns over two-syllable nouns, regardless of phrase type. We explain this finding by expanding our previous proposal: HVD is regulated by foot structure, but is dispreferred when it targets the head foot (where the obligatory phrase-final prominence is realized).

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This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research across multiple subfields, with seven broad thematic sections covering the structures of French; the history of French; axes of variation; French around the world; French in contact with other languages; second language acquisition; and French in literature, culture, arts, and the media. Each chapter presents the state of the art and directs readers to canonical studies and essential works, while also exploring cutting-edge research and outlining future directions. The Oxford Handbook of the French Language serves both as a reference work for people who are curious to know more about the French language and as a starting point for those carrying out new research on the language and its many varieties. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students as well as established scholars, whether they are specialists in French linguistics or researchers in a related field looking to learn more about the language. The diversity of frameworks, approaches, and scholars in the volume demonstrates above all the variety, vitality, and vibrancy of work on the French language today

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Footing is Not Always about Stress: Formalizing Variable High Vowel Deletion in Québec French

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What motivates high vowel deletion in Québec French: Foot structure or tonal profile?

What motivates high vowel deletion in Québec French: Foot structure or tonal profile?

Phonological parsing via an integrated I-language

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